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UNITE HERE Local 8 workers at the Embassy Suites Seattle Downtown Pioneer Square ratified a four-year contract, ending an 85-day strike with record $31.03 starting housekeeper wages and year-round healthcare.
The City of Bremerton and Kitsap County have joined a Pacific Northwest coalition suing the Trump administration to block executive directives conditioning federal municipal grants on immigration and diversity policies.
President Donald Trump nominated Pete Serrano to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, prompting an immediate vow from Senator Patty Murray to block the appointment through Senate procedures.
Kitsap Transit has launched its Fall 2026 service update, introducing 619 weekly bus trips and 15-minute service on Route 108 while trimming weekend foot ferry runs.
A new 80-page study from Challenge Seattle details Puget Sound shedding nearly 7,000 jobs in 2025 as Washington falls from 1st to 11th in national business rankings.
Kitsap County will temporarily close the Silverdale Recycling and Garbage Facility from September 21 through April 1 for a $15 million civil overhaul, diverting self-haul traffic to Olympic View in Bremerton.
Superintendent Chris Reykdal asks Governor Ferguson and lawmakers for nearly $2 billion in the 2027-2029 budget to fund basic education as schools face soaring insurance and utility costs.
Poulsbo is consolidating municipal public works operations at a modern 20 million dollar campus on Viking Way, retiring a WWII-era Quonset hut on Iverson Street.
Washington state negotiators and public sector unions representing over 44,000 workers reached tentative two-year contract agreements following weeks of impasse, meeting the crucial October 1 budget deadline.
Emily Vranic and Heather Marquis received federal prison sentences after stealing personal records from over 250 Puget Sound victims to fund personal expenses and home mortgage payments.
Washington Attorney General Nick Brown and a 24-state coalition secure a formal settlement blocking federal cuts to AmeriCorps, preserving over $21 million in community service funding across Washington state.
An 18-month Port of Bremerton study outlines $24M in needed upgrades to launch commercial passenger flights at Bremerton National Airport, ruling out cargo.
Washington insurance regulators approve an average 22.2 percent rate hike for 2027 individual health plans, impacting 281,055 residents as expired federal subsidies destabilize risk pools.
Attorney General Nick Brown is co-leading two federal lawsuits challenging Trump administration rules that strip habitat protections from the 1973 law, with southern resident orcas and salmon at the center of the state's case.
A late-night altercation two blocks from Bremerton High School left three young men wounded and multiple homes and vehicles damaged by gunfire, prompting Bremerton Police to appeal for neighborhood security video.
More than 550 Washington National Guard soldiers and airmen have completed a six-week wildfire mobilization across six major complexes, logging 474 flight hours and dropping nearly two million gallons of water.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan completed post-maintenance sea trials following an 18-month overhaul at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton.
Sound Transit and WSDOT are investigating the deaths of approximately 2,000 fish in Lake Washington after an impressed current cathodic protection system on the I-90 floating bridge created localized electrical fields near the lakebed.
Following a $30,000 shortfall and the absence of military jet headliners, organizers and Port of Bremerton commissioners are weighing whether to move the annual air show to an every-other-year format.
Kitsap County emergency officials have downgraded the peninsula wildfire ban from Stage 2 to Stage 1, allowing small recreational campfires while keeping general burn permits frozen.
Washington Governor Bob Ferguson signed Executive Order 26-03 to shield Washington Apple Health and over 600,000 residents from federal H.R. 1 Medicaid cuts.
The 36th annual Bremerton Blackberry Festival opens along the Sinclair Inlet waterfront for Labor Day weekend, drawing tens of thousands to downtown Bremerton as merchants seek seasonal sales.
Douglas County detectives arrested 18-year-old Michael Yakimov of Kent on first-degree manslaughter and arson charges after fireworks allegedly ignited the 10,000-acre Chelan Hills Fire, killing one resident.
The University of Washington School of Oceanography has leased space at Olympic View Industrial Park to host the NSF-backed Seafloor Sampling Facility.